[obol] possible Blue Grosbeak

[Darrel Faxon]

OBOL,
    This morning at my Thornton Creek ( Lincoln) farm, I heard a loud, metallic "pink" coming from a clump of willows.  It was an unusual sound, so I stopped to listen.  The bird called five or six times, and then flew out of the clump, across the road, and into some streamside willows and disappeared.  It was smaller than a Black-headed Grosbeak, and in the brief glimpse I got it appeared to me to be light grayish brown, about the same color as a young Brown-headed Cowbird.  I didn't notice any blue or any wingbars, but the view I got was very fleeting.  It might have been a female Blue Grosbeak, but I can't actually report it as that.  I went back to the house and got my binoculars, but was never able to relocate the bird.

Darrel
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